WT 4.4

basic voice

a.k.a. basic voice (construction),active voice construction,direct voice construction

an argument structure construction that conforms to the prototypical parallel ranking of participant role and argument salience. Example: I ate the smoked salmon is an instance of a basic voice construction -- semantically, I act upon the salmon, and I am more salient than the salmon in the discourse. Basic voice constructions are also called active or direct constructions. (Sections 6.1.1, 8.1)

Construction

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Modeled On

Model Of

applicative alignment

subject-predicate alignment

causative alignment

Hierarchy

Has as subtype

chaining construction

collective construction

ditransitive construction